Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes for Valuable Product Creation

Dear Colleagues,

I hereby invite you to contribute to a Special Issue in the journal Applied Sciences on the topic of “Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes for Valuable Product Creation”.

This Special Issue will cover recent developments in the field of carbohydrate-active enzyme technology, focusing on solutions to create valuable compounds. Examples include, but are not limited to, prebiotics or similarly bioactive compounds as well as on enzymatic treatment of biocommodities to increase their value and/or expand their range of application. Examples of biocommodity engineering include enzymatic depolymerization or extraction of defined carbohydrate structures, for example to increase the product value or improve product properties compared to the starting material. The scope also covers enzymatic technologies to synthesize carbohydrates, for example transglycosylation or use of glycosyltransferases. This Special Issue aims to include examples of more than one of these strategies and welcomes research that compares different routes to production of defined carbohydrates. Recent developments in the field include diverse research areas, such as enzyme discovery, protein engineering, computational modelling methods, carbohydrate analysis, development of appropriate enzyme cocktails, and bioprocess engineering.

Thus, I invite you to submit your research on these topics, in the form of original research papers or insightful review articles.

Dr. Birgitte Zeuner
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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